Most Holocaust survivors are now too old and frail to go into classrooms to bear witness to the past. Today, in Ottawa, five men and women who were child…
Advertisement 7“Since I am here, since I am lucky enough to be saved by some very generous people who were helping Jews, I have to do that,” he says.
The country’s anti-Jewish laws, modelled on Germany’s Nuremberg Race Laws, outlawed intermarriage, and limited the number of Jews in universities and in professional and administrative jobs. The young minister was part of Hungary’s Good Shepherd Committee, which provided aid for homeless children. After Germany invaded Hungary, the committee focused its work on shielding orphaned and homeless Jewish children from the Nazi death machine.
At the age of 18, Egervari fled the country during the Hungarian Revolution, a popular uprising that was ultimately crushed by Soviet troops. He went to France, where he studied theatre and launched his career as a stage director at what is today the National Theatre of Strasbourg.Article content “And the only way to stop them is to maintain a free and democratic society. Only dictatorships permit this kind of thing to happen.”OTTAWA. APRIL 18, 2023. #138961Judy Young Drache was adopted by her mother’s cousin, Margit Vajda and her husband, Paul Vajda, who kept her history from her, for the most part. Now almost 80, the mother of two and grandmother has spent years trying to piece together her family’s story.
After the war, when it was clear her parents were not coming back, Drache was adopted by a cousin, Margit Vajda, and her husband, Paul. They had converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism during the war – likely to protect themselves – and told Drache little about her birth parents. What little Judy learned about them came from whispered conversations with a grandmother in her new family.When she was about 12 years old, Drache found a letter addressed to her in her adoptive mother’s wardrobe.
Drache left Hungary with her adoptive parents in 1957 thanks to a family friend in England who helped arrange visas. Drache later travelled to Israel with her second husband, Arthur Drache, and found a man there who had been deported with him. She learned from him that her father had almost survived the war.
Drache says she shares her painful Holocaust story with students in order to convey a lesson: that all people have the duty to combat hate.
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